Toady Hawk
@toadyhawk.eth
mildly mind-blowing fact of the day for you: we don’t actually have the ability to feel temperature with our skin. Instead we feel heat transfer. That’s why when you get in a cold pool, it eventually stops feeling cold; the temperature of your skin and the water has equalized and you no longer feel heat transfer.
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Toady Hawk
@toadyhawk.eth
tell this to your wife who refuses to get into cold water
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Jonathan 🔉🖌️🫂
@cellar
Reminded me of paradoxical undressing. Wild
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nomygod
@nomygod.eth
similarly if you replaced the oxygen in a room with nitrogen and you could still exhale you would just pass out before realizing oxygen is low in the room
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Stuart
@olystuart
It's important for folks to understand this to help people dealing with fevers or hypothermia too. You have to treat their temperature not their subjective experience of the temperature they're telling you
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Snoova
@snoova
Oooooh thanks for this! That's dope lol
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mfa
@mfa
Whoa, that actually makes so much sense
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Iyus
@yulius7602
That’s actually such a cool way to think about it we’re not feeling “cold,” we’re feeling the change in energy. Makes you realize how much of our perception is about contrast, not absolute states. Thanks for the brain snack!
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